A Memorial of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Middlefield, August 15, 1883: Containing the Historical Discourse by Prof. Edward P. Smith of Worcester : with the Addresses and Letters

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Página 92 - Commonwealth ; except the authority and power which is or may be vested, by their constituents, in the Congress of the United States : And I do further testify and declare, that no man or body of men, hath or can have any right to absolve or discharge me from the obligation of this oath, declaration or affirmation ; and that I do make this acknowledgment, profession, testimony, declaration, denial, renunciation, and abjuration, heartily and truly, according to the common meaning and acceptation of...
Página 92 - AB, do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify, and declare, that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is, and of right ought to be a free, sovereign, and independent state; and I do swear, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the said commonwealth, and that I will defend the same against traitorous conspiracies and all hostile attempts whatsoever; and that I do renounce and abjure all allegiance, subjection, and obedience to the king...
Página 8 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Página 68 - As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirt of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne; And moving up from high to higher...
Página 58 - It is a companion which no misfortunes can depress, no clime destroy, no enemy alienate, no despotism enslave : at home a friend, abroad an introduction, ii\ solitude a solace, in society an ornament : it chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once a grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave! a reasoning savage, vacillating between...
Página 80 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
Página 68 - Dost thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys...
Página 92 - Britain, (as the case may be) and every other foreign power whatsoever: And that no foreign Prince, Person, Prelate, State or Potentate, hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, superiority, pre-eminence, authority, dispensing or other power, in any matter, civil, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this Commonwealth; except the authority and power which is or may be vested by their Constituents in the Congress of the United States...
Página 92 - Inhabitants of said District, qualified to vote in Town Affairs, to assemble at some suitable Time and Place in said District, to chuse such Officers as are necessary to manage the Affairs of said District.
Página 71 - So after the death-winter it must be. God will not put strange signs in the heavenly places : The old love shall look out from the old faces. Veilchen ! I shall have thee ! ADELINE DT WHITNKY.

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